Wash-board



(No Model.)

V. LANDRIEU.

WASH BOARD.

No. 422,810. Patented Mar. 4, 1890.

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VICTOR LANDRIEU, OF BAY ST. LOUIS, MISSISSIPPI.

WA S H B O A R D SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 422,810, dated March 4, 1890.

Application iilecl October 12,- 1889. Serial No. 326,812. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may con/cern:

Be it known that LVICTOR LANDRIEU, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bay St. Louis, in the county of Hancock and State of Mississippi, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wash and Brush Boards; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in wash-boards; and it has for its object to provide a reversible-faced wash-board with an automatic adjustable soap-seat bottom which will readily adapt itself to be used in connection with the face of the board to be employed.

The improvements Will be fully understood from the following description and claims, when taken in connection with the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my iinproved Wash-board, showing the brush side thereof. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the corrugated side. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the saine. Fig. el is a detail plan view of the gravitatin g bottom of the soap seat or holder, and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the guideloop and engaging-staple.

Referring by letter to the said drawings, G indicates the main frame of inyimproved device, which may be of any usual or approved pattern, having legs O, the said frame forining seats for the brush, the corrugated faces, and the gravitating soapreceptacle bottoni.

A indicates the brush, and F the corrugated rubbing-surfaces.

Il indicates the rectangularshaped frame, formed in the top of the board to afford, to-

gether with the gravitating bottoln, a receptacle for the soap.

B is the gravitating bottom, which is provided on either of its lateral. edges with rectangular reeesses in which are seated horizontally-disposed staple-shaped loops E, adapted to engage with the transversely disposed guide-loops.

D D are the guide-loops, which are provided With sharpened lateral branches adapted to take into the upper inner sides of the soap -holding frame. I preferably employ four of these guide-loops-two on each side of the frame which forms the guides for the loops of the gravitating bottom to engage with.

In operation it will be seen that when either side of the board is elevated the bottom of the soap-holder Will fall by gravity into its seat and, together with the sides of the frame, provide a convenient and thoroughly efficient soap-receptacle.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I desire to claim, and to secure by Letters Patent, isy The combination, with a reversible Washboard having transversely-disposed guides on the upper inner sides of its side bars, of a board or plate arranged between said. bars, and having eyes or staples to engage said guides, whereby said plate may be moved on the guides to form a soap-holder for each side of the board, substantially as specilied.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

VICTOR LANDRIEU.

Witnesses:

HELMUTH HoLrz, PEEcY D. PAEKs. 

